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Industry giants launch blacklist compensation scheme

Eight major contractors caught-up in the blacklist scandal have launched a compensation scheme for construction workers on The Consulting Association database.

The companies – Balfour Beatty, Carillion, Costain, Kier, Laing O’Rourke, Sir Robert McAlpine, Skanska UK and VINCI – are all “apologising for their involvement with TCA and the impact that its database may have had on any individual construction worker.”

The eight have joined together to establish The Construction Workers Compensation Scheme.

The scheme is intended to “make it as simple as possible for any worker with a legitimate claim to access compensation.”

The companies have now invited workers’ representatives to enter into talks about how the scheme will work.

A statement from the eight said: “We have discussed the scheme with a number of other construction companies.

“We encourage participation from across the industry and would welcome interest from any company that had been a user of, or subscriber to, TCA.

“The companies involved in the scheme would support the introduction of a code of conduct to ensure nothing like this can happen within the construction industry again.”

Workers hit by the blacklist are currently pursuing compensation claims through the courts.